merge pcap files in wirehshark

Question

I have created a sh script to merge pcap files using 'mergecap' command. But I'm facing an issue. What I need is merge all pcap files older that 5 days, so I use 'find' command to find all files older than 5 days

FILES=$(find /capture/nop/ -maxdepth 1 -name "*.pcap" -mtime +5)

How would I use array FILES in the mergecap command

mergecap -w outfulfile.pcap input1.pcap input2.pcap

And also is there anyway to use use the file name of first and last file merged as the file name of the output file.

Answer 1

Does this do what you want?

#!/bin/bash
FILES=($(find /capture/nop/ -maxdepth 1 -name "*.pcap" -mtime +5))
# Discard path name and extension
TAG1=$(basename "${FILES[0]}" | sed 's/.pcap//')
TAG2=$(basename "${FILES[-1]}" | sed 's/.pcap//')
mergecap -w "output_from_${TAG1}_to_$TAG2" ${FILES[@]}